Watters: You might run against Mamdani?
Portnoy: I would love to run against—if I was going to run, it would be here. Can I win here? I have no idea.
I’ve done a lot of good in NYC, whether it was the Barstool Fund or pizza places, so it wasn’t for show. I’ve had a real job. I’ve done real things, unlike these clown politicians who have never had a job and have never been in the real world for a day
Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm show on Amazon is the most radicalizing piece of mainstream media I’ve ever seen
Just one example (bear with me):
Badgers became a protected species in Britain 40+ years ago.
The population has exploded and now frequently transmits tuberculosis to cows
But farmers can’t cull the badger population to protect their cattle because the government still considers them to be endangered
Instead of addressing the root cause, the UK has the most batshit testing regime for cattle
There’s no TB vaccine. So the cattle have to get tested. The vets administering the test have to measure welts on the cows neck. Whether a cow lives or dies comes down to a vet trying to discern 1mm on a caliper (reactive vs non reactive).
If a cow tests positive, the farm (already running on super thin margins) is quarantined and starts hemorrhaging money.
Jeremy Clarkson’s cow (pregnant with twins) has an inconclusive test so it’s separated from the herd. It receives a second inconclusive test so they have to kill it (before it can give birth to the twins).
Now here’s the kicker: the autopsy reveals no sign of TB. It was a healthy cow needlessly killed
So - silver lining the farm should be removed from quarantine, right? WRONG - it’s still under quarantine and has to keep testing and can’t sell its beef
Kafkaesque doesn’t even begin to describe how f’d up it is for British farmers
@hunnidtabss@sour4pple That’s actually not true. They do breathe through their skin, but theoretically you can submerge a worm in water and it won’t drown for days.
@joero3@ChaseLa13334773@fearthe_void The originators of the Lost Cause ideology were adamant that the Confederate defeat was due to the disadvantages they had in terms of manpower and logistics. This is something that most Civil War scholars reject, but Foote explicitly makes this claim in the Ken Burns doc.
@Dylanm2424@outsports I don’t have a boyfriend. I’m happily married to a woman. Also, thanks for checking out my profile. I had a look at yours. Perhaps if your heart wasn’t filled with so much hate you could find a woman to love you and not just be a horny reply guy. Best of luck